For the majority of my career with Minitab, I’ve had the opportunity to speak somewhat regularly at conferences and other events. I thought some of my talks were pretty good, and some were not so good (based on ratings, audiences didn't always agree with my opinion at either extreme—but that's a topic for another post). I estimate that my proposals were accepted for presentation more than 90 percent of the time, so even though I may not have always delivered a home run on stage, I at least submitted an abstract that was appealing to the organizers.

As chair of this year’s Lean and Six Sigma World Conference, I reviewed every abstract submitted and was able to experience things from the other side of the process. Now, with the submission period upon us for the Minitab Insights Conference, I thought I’d share some insights on submitting an A+ speaking presentation.

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